Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hypopitys is a noun meaning "term used in some classifications for the pinesaps, which are usually included in the genus Monotropa". It carries one recorded sense.
term used in some classifications for the pinesaps, which are usually included in the genus Monotropa
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hypopitys come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.